t shall come to pass, that at evening time it
shall be light." We are nearing the close of this gospel day. The sun of
time hangs low in the western horizon. The gospel light is now shining in
peaceful splendor like the clear setting of the sun after a dark and
cloudy noonday.

"Misty fogs so long concealing
All the hills of mingled night
Vanish, all their sin revealing,
For the "evening shall be light"

"Lo, the ransomed are returning,
Robed in shining crystal white,
Leaping, shouting, home to Zion,
Happy in the ev'ning light."--_Sel._

Chapter I. The Apostasy In Two Days.

In our introduction we gave a number of texts which spoke of the whole of
the gospel dispensation as one day; but any period of time distinguished
by some extraordinary historic event may be and is also termed a day. The
apostasy or dark noonday being under two forms is marked in Bible history
as two days. The first form of the apostasy, namely, Catholicism, is
called by the Scriptures a "dark day."

A Cloudy Day.

The second form of the apostasy was not such utter darkness as the first,
and is therefore called a cloudy day. "For thus saith the Lord God;
Behold, I, even I, will both search my sheep, and seek them out. As a
shepherd seeketh out his flock in the day that he is among his sheep that
are scattered; so will I seek out my sheep, and will deliver them out of
all places where they have been scattered in the cloudy and dark day."
Ezek. 34:11, 12. The cloudy day was a day of the scattering of God's
people. This has been true of Protestantism. God's own people have been
divided and scattered among the various organizations of man. The time of
the seeking out refers to the evening, when God is going to gather his
children together that "were scattered abroad," and they shall be "one
heart and one soul" as in the morning.

One more text refers to the cloudy day. "And it shall come to pass in that
day that the light shall not be clear, nor dark: but it shall be one day
which shall be known to the Lord, not day, nor night: but it shall come to
pass, that at evening time it shall be light." Zech. 14:6, 7. This day of
Protestantism was neither "clear nor dark"; was neither "day, nor night."
It was a mixture of light and darkness, truth and error, and therefore is
fitly termed a cloudy day.

A Revival.

After those two days there shall be a great revival caused by the
outpouri